Short term lease to a company- who do you screen?

[Shawn Faris]

I had a company that does large commercial painting contract work contact me in regards to some properties I have listed for rent. They would like to do a 6 month lease on 2 properties that I currently have vacant and they are looking to start ASAP. I am looking for some advice/thoughts from others on the tenant screening/background check for such a situation as I know many people do this. The company intends to be the one on the lease and to provide the security and monthly payments while 3 of their employees live at my rental. 

Questions:

- Do you typically screen each of the people living there?

- is it typical for the business owner to fill out application for themselves without any of the employees personal information? 

- Does anyone use a specific application/lease only for these scenarios?

- Do you screen the business owner?

- Am I missing anything here? It seems like a great opportunity but I am also not looking for another headache so I want to be sure it makes sense.

Any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Shawn